A young girl with a painful rash

J Fam Pract. 2019 Jan/Feb;68(1):E25-E27.

Abstract

The speed with which this rash spread and the fact that the patient's skin sloughed off when pressure was applied made the diagnosis clear.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Exanthema / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pain / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome / complications
  • Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome / pathology